The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife without laughing is a dreary blank.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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